She read from the article: “The Linguistic Binary Self-selection Theory asserts that character, taste, and mental aptitude strongly correlate with the amount of enjoyment a person derives from pronouncing one of two words.”

“Which words?” he asked.

“The first word is ‘Bob.'”

“Bob,” he said.

They looked at each other.

“Bob,” he said again and chuckled.

“The second-”

“Bob.”

“The second is-”

“Bob. Bob. Bob.” His mouth moved like a fish’s. He rocked back on his heels chortling and started pacing around the room.

“Bob. Bob.”

She watched him for a moment then turned her eyes back to the page. She slid her finger along the second word and carefully pronounced, “Ses qui pe dal i an.”

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Liam Perrin

Liam has been roughly geosynchronous for more than a few decades and likely will remain so. Most recently, he orbits the center of Earth from a position outside of Phoenix, Arizona where he tries to avoid high speed collisions with his wife, one daughter, a miniature Australian shepherd, a Russian tortoise, a 70-pound Sheprador, and a cat which turned up uninvited.